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user704988
user704988

Reputation: 436

Relative path for a included file - ASP/HTML

Sorry if this question is answered somewhere else but I tried searching several pages and was unsuccessful.

So i have an include file (sidebar) which i am using in all pages.

Default.asp
Products.asp
Salary/Survey.asp
inc/sidebar.asp (this is the included file)

now inside sidebar.asp I have a link for Salary/Survey.asp

from all other pages at root level, i can simply use href='Salary/Survey.asp' and will work fine. but when I am on page Survey.asp , writing href='Salary/Survey.asp' will become actually Salary/Salary/Survey.asp. I understand it has to be ../Salary/Survey.asp to be used properly but it will then not work for root level pages.

I can not use root relative which is /Default.asp and /Salary/Survey.asp as I am working for someone else' project and i dont know his directory structure and thus i only have option to document relative path.

Hope this is clear to understand and someone helps me out.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5026

Answers (3)

Jatin
Jatin

Reputation: 1708

you need to get write this after the that - Salary/Survey.asp
You can get the virtual path to the file from one of several server variables - try either:

Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")
Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")

Either server variable will give you the virtual path including any sub-directories and the file name - given your example, you'll get /virtual_directory/subdirectory/file.asp. If you just want the virtual directory, you'll need to strip off everything after the second forward slash using whatever method you prefer for plucking a directory out of a path, such as:

s = Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")
i = InStr(2, s, "/")
If i > 0 Then
    s = Left(s, i - 1)
End If
or:

s = "/" & Split(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"), "/")(1)

Upvotes: 1

Michael Riley - AKA Gunny
Michael Riley - AKA Gunny

Reputation: 5184

We solved this problem the following way...

  1. Each of our asp pages included a special file that Dims and sets golbal variables. We called ours Info.asp
  2. Inside Info.asp we defined a variable called strRelativePath
    Dim strRelativePath
    strRelativePath = ""
  3. Every asp page set the relative path according to it relative position:

for example:

  • Root pages - strRelativePath = ""
  • One level deep pages - strRelativePath = "../"
  • Two levels deep pages - strRelativePath = "../../"

Then it was a matter of prefacing all the links requiring a relative path with <%=strRelativePath%>

Upvotes: 2

Rodolfo
Rodolfo

Reputation: 4183

basically, if your sidebar can be included from programs in different folders, the only 'easy' way is to use absolute paths like you mentioned.

You say can't use it, so I would think of different ways...

  • virtual folders: In IIS you could set a virtual folder in salary folder for 'salary' and point it to the site's root.
  • OS links (similar to above, but at the OS level)
  • use mappath. You could check mappath to see the actual folder you're in, and use the correct include (with/without /salary) though I'm thinking this might give you an error, not sure.

Upvotes: 0

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